Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Ben Sorensen reached out to LaToya Ratlieff on Wednesday, news outlets reported. A Florida woman who was shot in the face by a rubber bullet during a Black Lives Matter demonstration last year has received an apology from a city official. Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Ben Sorensen reached out to LaToya Ratlieff on…
OWN’s latest reality series, “Belle Collective,” seeks to redefine the term “Southern belle” by following a group of successful, entrepreneurial Black women who live, work, and play in Jackson, Mississippi. Goddess Lengths Virgin Hair owner Latrice Rogers is one of the belles stepping into the reality show ball in hopes of making a bigger name…
‘We’re excited to expand enterprising Black storytelling and the celebration of Black culture beyond the month of February’ Starting in March, ABC’s Soul of a Nation is set to showcase Black life in America and will feature Jemele Hill, Marsai Martin, and others as guest hosts. It seems ABC is dedicated to continuing the conversation…
Doubling face masks, CDC officials now assert, can ‘reduce exposure from infected wearers and reduce exposure of uninfected wearers.’ It’s time to double up. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now definitively declared that wearing a well-fitting surgical mask underneath a cloth mask can reduce exposure to COVID-19 by 96%. The new study also advises…
Mary Cosby, Jen Shah, and the rest of the cast attend their first ‘Real Housewives’ reunion ever After a successful first season, last night The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City kicked off its first ever three-part reunion, which featured plenty of fashion, drama and rehashing the season’s biggest plot points. Hosted by Andy Cohen,…
‘I never was going to take this to social media. The reason I took this to social media was because I didn’t know what else to do,’ she said. Tessica Brown became a viral news story after uploading a Tiktok video expressing the need for help as she used permanent Gorilla Glue on her hair and was unable…
Source: STEPHEN ZENNER / Getty The mother of a young Black man shot and killed by a police officer in Ohio says his autopsy results show he was struck six times from behind with a “high-powered rifle” more than two months ago. Casey Goodson Jr.‘s mother revealed the autopsy results on Wednesday after keeping them…
The couple appear on GQ’s Modern Lovers cover Singer Ciara and her husband Russell Wilson, are the latest couple to appear on GQ’s Modern Love covers. During a pre-Valentines Day sit down with the magazine the Seattle Seahawks quarterback playfully admits that his biggest fear in life is losing her. “What’s my biggest fear?” Wilson…
Urban Outfitters recently unveiled its Historically Black College and University-inspired capsule collection by Alife X Champion. While the brand’s intentions might’ve been pure, folks on Twitter — specifically Black people — were expressing anything but pride. “Good Morning America” reported that the collection was in partnership with the Collegiate Licensing Company. The line that featured the…
The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals issued the stay Wednesday night about 21 hours before Willie B. Smith was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection An appellate court has stayed the lethal injection of an Alabama inmate to consider claims that the state failed to give the man, who has an IQ…
